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A frock or outer garment worn in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

ng a repetition of the first and second lines as the seventh and eighth, and again as the thirteenth and fourteenth. E. W. Gosse.

r science, or to any subject, for the purpose of acquiring knowledge. Hammond . . . spent thirteen hours of the day in study. Bp. Fell. Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace. Sir W. Temple.

One of the four sets of cards which constitute a pack; -- each set consisting of thirteen cards bearing a particular emblem, as hearts, spades, cubs, or diamonds. To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort Her mingled suits and sequences. Cowper.

he cards on the board, and so removing them all; in whist, the winning of all the tricks (thirteen) in a hand; a slam.

madillo (Xenurus unicinctus), native of the tropical parts of South America. It has about thirteen movable bands composed of small, nearly square, scales. The head is long; the tail is round and tapered, and nearly destitute of scales; the claws of the fore feet are very large. Called also tatouary, and broad-banded ar…

The years of one's age having the termination -teen, beginning with thirteen and ending with nineteen; as, a girl in her teens.

Thirteen. [Obs. or Scot.]

Thirteen. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One of a school of poets who flourished from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, principally in Provence, in the south of France, and also in the north of Italy. They invented, and especially cultivated, a kind of lyrical poetry characterized by intricacy of meter and rhyme, and usually of a romantic, amatory strai…

The thirteenth, or intercalary, month of the Jewish ecclesiastical calendar, which is added about every third year.

osite each other being partners) with a complete pack of fifty-two cards. Each player has thirteen cards, and when these are played out, he hand is finished, and the cards are again shuffled and distributed.